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1521) Hasta que alguien me escuche: una historia sobre las fronteras, la familia y la misión de una niña
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Spanish edition of the true story of Estela Juarez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the President, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Although many presidential candidates claim to be moderates, the word cannot conceal a political climate defined by extreme rhetoric and virulent partisanship. In Leading From the Center, Gil Troy argues that this is a distinctly un-American state of affairs. The great presidents of American history have always sought a golden mean - from Washington, who brilliantly mediated between the competing visions of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Even before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but effective coalition that stalled Trumpism at the ballot box and enacted a raft of consequential legislation. But how long can the uneasy peace hold, and can Biden win again?"--
1525) 9/11-- press for truth
Publisher
Disinformation Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of the Jersey Widows (four women who lost their husbands in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center) to pressure the federal government into conducting a legitimate investigation on the 9/11 attacks. Reconstructs Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline, a compilation of documented facts that taken together imply that the Bush Administration was complicitous in the attacks.
1526) Cronkite remembers
Publisher
Marathan Music & Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Walter Cronkite, using archival news footage and revealing interviews, reminisces about his career in journalism covering major events in recent history.
Author
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A critical history of the roots of Nazi occultism and its continuing influence. Explores the occult influences on various Nazi figures, including Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, and Heinrich Himmler. Examines the foundations of the movement laid in the 19th century and continuing in the early 20th century. Explains the rites and runology of National Socialism, the occult dimensions of Nazi science, and how many of the sensationalist...
Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"My Brother's Keeper tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region. Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the world--and especially the Middle East--differently. The US president wanted to end what he saw as America's perpetual war against the Muslim and Arab worlds, use diplomacy to bring about a Palestinian state coexisting peacefully with...
Publisher
DTZ History Publications
Pub. Date
[2016.
Language
English
Description
"Almost all accounts of D Day are told from the Allied perspective. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers of the Nromandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest invasion in history? What motivated the German defenders, what were their thought processes - and how did they fight from one strong point to another, among the dunes and fields, on that first cataclysmic day? This book sheds fascinating light on these questions,...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political...